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Best wishes 2020 to you and your family
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It is the first day of 2020 and the temperature is up to the high of 60 *f . It is like a spring day here in East Wenatchee, Washington State.
Now I can say to @Wayne we have the windows open and doors still closed to keep the new stray tom cat out. Have a great year you all.
Bob
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Not a good sign. People here are noticing the peculiar weather too. It should be quite cold, and sunny. Clear arctic air. Instead it’s cloudy, and today it reached zero C. It didn’t even get cold after the Colorado low passed, which always brings cold air behind the system.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! May you all have a year with plenty of gas. 
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Hey, I’ve got bad gas. At least I did yesterday. 
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The wife and I have been apologizing to each other today for our “methane moments” after eating too much lentil stew. Happy New Year to all!
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that’s funny, but I was talking about the punky wood in my gasifier.lol billy
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Bad gas you must have pluged up at the retrictor or down stream hay filter’ and or ran too wet of wood through that gasifier. Oh or a extended bridge time and run out of charbed.?
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I put chains and raking blade on the Fergie early fall. Best way to make sure there will be very little snow.
Lack of snow makes for nice ice for skating on a nearby lake.
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Is that you flying 12’ above the ice?
Too much fun!
About 25 years ago when I was working at Tampa airport I got into wind surfing. Great adventures in Tampa bay
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No Michael, it’s not me. I would probably be dragged across the lake on my belly if I ever tried it 
I haven’t used my skates for years. I tried wind surfing too but I spent more time swimming than surfing.
Just like you, I’ve been more into flying. Paragliding was my thing until the woodgas bug caught me.
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You don’t have any snow??? At the end of 2019 the weather guy added up our percipitation for the year and it was somthing like 25 inches more that the record year which was back in the 70’s. We have had only one good(?) storm this winter but we get spirts of 1-3 inches which keeps the ground covered.TomC
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Beautiful spring day, over these parts. Never remember a January like this.
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So how does this compare to the winters of say, 20 or 30 years ago? It seems to me that your bush is adapted to cold winters with good snow.
Maybe your wish to grow grapes can be done now. Ever make any progress with that?
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We’ve had a very cold November, an average December and so far a mild January. We are way above our average snow fall, about 3’ on the ground but about 4-5’ total which is about what we receive in one winter. Our snowiest month is in March. It may be hard to get to the maple trees this Spring. No complaints from me. My plow truck, skid steer and snowmobile are all running well. It’s just the way the weather has always been, up and down and unpredictable. Hopefully in 2 months it’ll start warming up enough for the maple trees to start running so we can make maple syrup. Every year they seem to run later than the year before.
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Crazy january weather,extended heat wave,last three weeks for its over some what. Caint seem too stay cool with wood burner fan low as it goes.It sure beats sticking too the floor when my water lines were steel and not insulated well enough for the hard winter we had several years ago.I sleep by the radiator a few nights.
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I don’t remember a January like this either. Mostly above freezing all winter. Only a few cold snaps with -12C at the lowest. Local weather can easily be observed looking out your own window. Long term avarage temps is a different story. I haven’t studied it enough to comment but one indication of warmer winters around here is tics. We never ever had them until 10-15 years ago. They always belonged further south. Moose and white tail suffer a lot. Also, wood eating bugs thrive. The amount of dead standing spruce is increasing.
Lots of alternative facts are produced these days. It’s a good thing to be sceptical. However, I still trust thermometers.
Unfortunately there’s even more to worry about. Clean water, chemical fertilizer, rare metals and oil (probably in that order) are only few of the problems we face in dacades to come.
Garry, I haven’t yet tried grapes. It seems my neighbour’s Estonian variety thrives though. Maybe the south facing brick wall is what it takes.
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Allso Wood eating bugs starting too thrive, The other day a month ago when i was useing my slabwood splitter, a bug of some kind bit me, i had a lump on my neck that about size of quarter pert near 1/4" thick that finnally went away after several activated charco patches it started too detox down in size, now it is down too a small zit, though i can still feel the split at the entrance of the bit. Dam strange for mi, here i thought we were exemp from any kicker bugs, other than northern black widow about size of a dime counting leg span, been seeing in my barn, though never seen any in the wood pile.
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There are white tail deer there? Do you mean the north American species was introduced?
As for grapes, if your ground isn’t frozen yet, stem cuttings can be planted in the ground any time now until bud break, but best to plant early to allow time for roots to sprout.
Is your neighbour getting grapes on his vines? I gather your summer temperatures aren’t so high, the grapes may grow but not like to produce fruit in those conditions.
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Lots of them. According to Wiki ours are called Capreolus capreolus - European/Asian - and they’ve returned to Scandinavia between ice ages on several occations.
Kristijan and I saw a few American white tails when passing through Billy’s neck of the woods and I couldn’t tell a difference from ours.
Yes, I was given a couple of clusters. The grapes were really sweet and almost as big as store bought grapes from the south. His variety seems very hardy.
I know several people who grows vines in there greenhouses but the grapes usually get pretty small.
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